... Cross-Country Empirical Study.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Baum, Matthew A. and Lake, David A. (2003). “The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital,” American Journal of Political Science ... literature. First, we use the Polity IV data (Marshall and Jaggers, 2000), which measures a country’s level of democracy and autocracy and creates an overall measure by subtracting the latter ... A. COOPER DRURY, JONATHAN KRIECKHAUS, AND MICHAEL LUSZTIG Corruption, Democracy, and Economic Growth A. COOPER DRURY, JONATHAN KRIECKHAUS, AND MICHAEL LUSZTIG A BSTRACT. Scholars have long...